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This provides two things: a step-by-step guide to making interactive images in ThingLink and also a nice presentation tool/source of Hot to lessons, in SnapGuide. 

Interactive tutorial from Rutgers University for students covering these areas: Selecting a topic, finding sources, selecting keywords, identifying citations, evaluating sources. Includes database searching using example of EBSCO, importing citations with RefWorks.

Thanks Amanda. I like the interactive nature of the site. It is very smooth and informative. I think Uni students would have the stamina to go through the options offered but I wonder about high school students' ability to stay with it.

Thanks for sharing, Amanda. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore.

Here you will play an interactive game and learn how to correctly format APA or MLA citations for some of the most commonly used citation types.

Gooru is a new service (still carrying the Alpha label) that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science.

A great Search Engine site, but with more features such as a Library of resource organised by subject area. Unfortunately very U.S. based, but for some subjects that wouldn't matter.

The science dept at school has just started experimenting with creating units on gooru - so far they are impressed! Thanks for sharing the link. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

Interactive tutorial with lots of prompts. (Posted by Jan Colliver)

What a neatly done tutorial. Thanks for sharing Jan. I've marked your Diigo assignment as complete on Lore.

A free online encyclopedia about the Earth, its natural enviornments and interaction with society. Whilst the intended audience is the general public the content is suitable for teachers and students. There are links to other resources.

*finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces *generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level *supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment

higher order thinking strategies and tools lots of links and info Some tools not free but there are still many that can be used

Some great inter-actives here - if you are in Victoria, make sure you have a look at the e5 interactive for students. Thanks for sharing,. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore.

I've found all of Museum Victoria's websites extremely useful. This is an interesting research tool for family histories.

Thanks for sharing, Chris. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore.

Thanks for the positive comments we built this resource with the express purpose of providing students and teachers with explicit examples of research and a scaffolded approach to historical enquiry We are adding to the resources and the aim is for the site to be interactive Would be happy to assist any school who would like to take on creating digital histories in 2013 - used in conjunction with Historypin http://www.historypin.com Jan